Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, sentence 4
I want to carry off the young eaglet from the top of the rock.
Who acts: I · What happens: want, carry off · To what, where: young eaglet, top
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 want | nsubj |
| 2 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 carry | mark |
| 4 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 want | xcomp |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 carry | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 eaglet | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 eaglet | amod |
| 8 | eaglet | eaglet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carry | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 top | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 top | det |
| 11 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carry | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 rock | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rock | det |
| 14 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 top | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | carry off not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | the young eaglet | the top of the rock | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent eaglet=Theme from top=Initial_Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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